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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
+description: "Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 983"
+citation: "Maryland HB 983 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Health", "Contracts", "Counselors", "Health", "Health Benefit Exchange", "Health Insurance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Substance Abuse", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-08"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB983&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "0b718ee6449a3cf3fab6a4813ad45e464357f963efdf00007e0565e0bcca6b47"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 983 (2017) — Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0983f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **126–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-09** Hearing canceled
+- **2017-03-09** Hearing 3/13 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {626783/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (126-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71534dcd-cd6f-40b6-80c3-cb7a2f58b72f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+